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According to Trump’s team, the reasoning behind not releasing his tax returns is due to an audit by the IRS. The team has not commented on the fact that the IRS doesn’t have a mandate that wouldn’t allow Trump to make his return public while being audited, however.

CNN has broken down the several statements Trump has made over the years regarding his tax returns.

2014:

Trump tells Irish television station that he would “absolutely” release his tax returns if he entered the race.

February 2015:

Trump tells Hewitt that he would “certainly show tax returns if it was necessary.”

October 2015:

Trump tells ABC News that he was considering releasing his tax returns.

January 2016:

Trump tells NBC News he had “very big returns” and that his team was “working” on releasing his returns.

February 24, 2016:

Trump tells radio program that “we’ll get them out at some point, probably.”

February 25, 2016:

Trump tells CNN’s Anderson Cooper, that he has a “very complex system of taxes.” "We'll make a determination over the next couple of months," he said. "It's very complicated."

February 25, 2016:

Trump tweeted that he already filed public financial disclosure forms that are "great." He continued saying “Just for your info, tax returns have 0 to do w/ someone’s net worth. I have already filed my financial statements w/ FEC. They are great!” Then during a CNN-Telemundo debate, Trump said he wanted to release the tax returns but he wasn’t able to during his audit.

February 27, 2016:

Trump continued to tweet about his taxes saying, "Tax experts throughout the media agree that no sane person would give their tax returns during an audit. After the audit, no problem!"

May 2016:

Trump tells the Associated Press that his taxes are under “routine audit,” and that he will release them when the audit is complete.

September 2016:

Trump reiterates during his first presidential debate that his tax return will be made public after his audit is complete.

January 2017:

Kellyanne Conway says the president is not going to release his tax returns. Later in the month, Conway clarifies her remarks tweeting, "On taxes, answers (& repeated questions) are same from campaign: POTUS is under audit and will not release until that is completed."

April 16, 2017:

Trump tweets: "I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?"

April 17, 2017:

Spicer continues to give press the answer: “It's the same thing that was discussed during the campaign trail, the president is under audit. It's a routine one that continues.”

April 26, 2017:

Treasury secretary says that President Donald Trump "has no intention" of releasing his tax returns.